Sacramento County
Biographies
WILLIAM M. POWERS
Of the carpenter
force of the Southern Pacific Railroad Company William M. Powers, late of Sacramento,
was a well known member from 1886 until 1900. His health began to fail in 1898
and his life came to a close October
30, 1900. He was
born in Illinois
in 1839, was reared and educated there and there acquired a practical knowledge
of the carpenter's trade. In 1861, when he was about twenty-two years old, he
enlisted in the Federal army, for service in the Civil war. He did gallant duty
as a soldier during the entire period of his enlistment and received honorable
discharge from the service. The last twelve years of his life were passed in
the service of the Southern Pacific Railroad Company, in which he might have
remained many years long had he not passed away untimely in his sixty-second
year.
In 1879 Mr. Powers married Miss Mary
E. Adams, a native of North Carolina
and a descendant of old and honored families of that state. She bore him four
children, three of whom survive. His parents were natives of Maine
and he numbered among his ancestors New England Yankees, who in successive
generations amply proved themselves to be devoted and patriotic citizens and
successful men of affairs. With all who knew him he was deservedly popular and
many a former comrade remembers him as one who is ever ready with the friendly
hand in time of need.
Transcribed by Sande Beach.
Source: Willis,
William L., History of Sacramento
County, California, Page 610.
Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, CA. 1913.
© 2005 Sande Beach.